GenQ - For the not so straight individual

For the first time since the war started, George W. Bush is searching for a new strategy. President Bush met with lawmakers on Friday to schedule three days of urgent talks with military leaders, diplomats and war experts on how to stop Iraq's path toward anarchy.

The latest Associated Press-Ipsos poll shows that 71 percent of Americans are dissatisfied with the way the war is going.

Incoming Senate Democratic Whip Richard Durbin of Illinois told the Associated Press that the president talked about the Iraq panel's report and said he was open to changing tactics.

"I think we all understand tactics need to be changed, but the Iraq Study Group went further than tactics," Durbin said. "The Iraq Study Group talked about the new direction in Iraq in terms of starting to bring American troops home, redeploying them to safer places, holding Iraq to new standards of responsibility and opening up a new line of diplomacy."

Bush is expected to agree on a new plan and present it to Americans before Christmas.